159 PhD programmes in Communication Studies

The Communication program from Colorado State University creates a cadre of scholars and practitioners capable of engaging with academic and professional communities to meet the challenges of our increasingly interdependent and globally diverse social worlds.

This Communication Arts in Global Communication (International Program) degree from Bangkok University has been well received, a need to revise the curriculum arises. 

The doctoral program in Communication at Washington State University provides world class curriculum, faculty, and facilities to prepare students as scholars and educators.

The Communication and Learning in STEM programme offered by Chalmers University of Technology develops advanced research expertise in learning processes, communication, and language in engineering and scientific contexts.

The Science Communication programme offered by Imperial develops advanced research expertise in the communication of science, public engagement, media representation, and the societal dimensions of scientific knowledge, preparing researchers to examine how science is understood and communicated across different audiences and contexts.

Get the training you need to become an academic researcher and scholar. Through rigorous research experience, intensive course work, and collaboration with faculty mentors, you'll gain the skills for a career as an independent researcher in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the New York University.

The specialisation of Professional and Intercultural Communication at NHH Norwegian School of Economics provides PhD candidates with a solid training in the production of high quality research within one of the department’s four research areas.

The Communication programme offered by University of Memphis develops advanced expertise in message design, media influence, and professional discourse analysis.

The Communication Sciences and Disorders program at Northwestern University brings together researchers studying mechanisms and disorders of communication in an interdisciplinary setting. 

The Electronics and Communication Engineering program from Lovely Professional University emphasizes on off-the-shelf research to create new knowledge and explore future challenges

The Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication program offered by University of Memphis prepares students to teach and conduct research in the areas of composition, rhetoric, technical communication, and writing program administration.  

The Communication program offered by University of Missouri - Columbia takes social scientific and critical approaches to the study of communication. 

The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University has an international reputation for its critical scholarship on urgent social and political problems affecting contemporary societies, locally and globally.

The Communication program at University of California, Davis focuses on the social scientific study of human communication using quantitative research methods with a concentration in mediated communication and digital society. 

This Communication research degree programme from Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University admits outstanding applicants interested in the theoretical understanding of, and academic research in, advertising, public relations, strategic communication, new media communication, journalism, and media studies.

As a student in the Information and Communication Technology program at the Swinburne University of Technology, you will undertake supervised research with the aim of making a significant and original contribution to a discipline or profession. 

Our Computer and Communication Sciences doctoral program at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne covers all areas of computer science and of information and communication theory, from its mathematical foundations to systems, platforms, and interdisciplinary applications.

The Ph.D. program from The University of New Mexico features the study of culture and Communication applied to three areas of concentration: critical intercultural studies, health communication, and media studies. 

The mission of the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Iowa is to explore the central role that communication plays in shaping our relationships, institutions, and societies. 

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Communication Studies offered by the Department of Art History & Communications in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes advanced and stimulating learning opportunities.